Went down today at about 1 and my first sight of the river was fish rising Must admit i was a tad excited setting up as i could see about 6 fish rising steadily within casting range. Think thats a first Several casts later the excitement was turning to slight something else as they were all ignoring my offerings. Quick change of flys and bang first cast Had 4 in all, over an hour or 2 ranging from 3/4lb to very decent Here is a pic of the best of the day and also a pic of what i suspect may be my first ever seatrout?

Not sure about the tail didnt really notice at the time. What made me think it may be a seatrout is the silvery colour and that it fought like crazy. The pic doesnt really do it justice. Must start carrying my camera again but then again i carried it a lot last year and mostly photographed.....flowers and scenery.

Hi Baz using a scott 4/5 weight built by our own Sandy A Barrio DT4 line with 6ft tapered leader and 4ft of clear mono tippet. Two dries about 2 foot apart, todays sucessfull were cdc and elk, cul de canon and an olive cdc thingy i got from a mate. I think the choice of fly is not as important as being in the right place at the right time. One thing im doing this year which might be making a difference is degreasing the leader every few casts. Out again tomorrow, whats the bets on a blank

Hi Baz using a scott 4/5 weight built by our own Sandy A Barrio DT4 line with 6ft tapered leader and 4ft of dreddan clear mono tippet. Two dries about 2 foot apart, todays sucessfull were cdc and elk, cul de canon and an olive cdc thingy i got from a mate. I think the choice of fly is not as important as being in the right place at the right time. One thing im doing this year which might be making a difference is degreasing the leader every few casts. Out again tomorrow, whats the bets on a blank

The second one could be a Slob trout, not uncommon on the Don.They are Brownies that decide to pop down to the estuary for a while (often during winter when the food is scarce) , where they feed on estuary food take on a lovely silver sheen and then disappear back upstream for when the flies start to hatch. They go like buggery and for my sins in the "old days" they taste beautiful

Keep it up, i'll have to find a window in my ridiculous schedule

Sandy

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John Geirach 1999 "Millions of trout have died of old age before i could catch them and there's not a damn thing i can do about that"

Tougher day today, blue skys and an unfavourable wind. Good numbers of olives hatching with the odd MB. Only saw a few rising fish and most seemed to be one offs. Wind was causing major problems and just couldnt seem to position myself where i could cover a fish. Did a lot of prospecting in likely runs without a touch, still good fun though.Heading back to the car i noticed what looked like a few fish moving midriver just under the surface, so once i got below them tried a cast into the activity. Was rewarded by an immediate take and after a good tussel landed this lovely fish.

I have had a great couple of days dry fly fishing on the Don. Yesterday there was a great rise from 12-2.00pm resulting in numerous fish, 5 over the 2lb mark best at around 3 lbs. Today conditions were not ideal, bright, sunny and breezy fortunately managed to tempt 3 best at 25 inch 5lb +. All fish were safely returned.